James 4:5; Jeremiah 12:1; Job 21:7; Proverbs 24:1; Proverbs 3:31; Psalms 37:1; Psalms 37:7
For I was envious at the foolish - The word “foolish” here refers to sinners. It may either refer to them as foolish, or as proud, insolent, vain...
BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believe...
foolish . arrogant, or boasters. wicked . lawless. Hebrew. rasha'.
3. For I envied the foolish (154) Here he declares the nature of the temptation with which he was assailed. It consisted in this, that when...
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. I was envious at the foolish - I saw persons who worshipped not the true...
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For I was envious at the foolish - Hebrew, 'the foolishly insolent...
Book 3 There are two groups of Pss. in this book, Psalms 73-83 being Psalms of Asaph, and Psalms 84-88 (except 86) Psalms of the Sons of Korah. Th...
Foolish] RV 'arrogant.'
Foolish. — Better, arrogant. When I saw. — Perhaps the conjunction is wrongly supplied, and the word “saw” here is synonymous with “envied” in...
Psalms 73:1-28 THE perennial problem of reconciling God's moral government with observed facts is grappled with in this psalm, as in Psalms 37:1-...
Deceptive Prosperity Psalms 73:1-15 The opening psalms of this third Book of Psalms are by Asaph; see 2 Chronicles 29:30 . The r.v. margin sub...
The marginal reading, "Only good is God to Israel," indicates the real value of the song. Israel has no other good, and needs no other. Yet it is not...
The Psalmist here opens the subject which had so much tended to stagger his faith. It appears, the question which arose in his mind, and gave him suc...
For I was envious at the foolish ,.... The atheists, as in Psalms 14:1 , who deny the creation, as Arama; the wicked, as after explained, as all w...
For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Ver. 3. For I was envious at the foolish ] Heb. at the braggadocio...
But as for me Yet I must acknowledge with grief and shame, concerning myself, that notwithstanding all my knowledge of this truth, and my own exper...
God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. A psalm of Asaph....
I grudged and murmured at it, and had a secret desire to partake of their delicates.
INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,” or, as in the margin, “ for Asaph .” See introduction to Psalms 50 . Subject .—The mental diff...
Psalms 73 First, there is in this Psalm a description of the prosperity of the wicked, and of that hauteur and pride which they in their prosperit...
You may have noticed that the 73 rd Psalm and the 37 th Psalm are on the same subject; it will help you to recall this fact if you remember that the...
Here you have the psalmist in a fainting fit. He has allowed the flesh to conquer the spirit. The observant eye of reason has for awhile rendered dim...
The psalmist here works out the problem of the prosperity of the wicked. He was troubled in his own mind about it; he knew that he feared God, but he...
«A Psalm Of Asaph.» He was a great singer, but he could not always sing. In the first part of the Psalm he felt rather like groaning than singing; an...
The third book of Hebrew psalms begins here. It opens with a psalm of Asaph, the noble singer and musician of the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:39 ; 1 Chr...
Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. The trouble of Asaph In human biographies men are wont to cover up their her...
I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. A popular fallacy exposed The position I wish to lay down is this:--that...
EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating us...
Comfort and Warning Concerning the Offense Given by the Good Fortune of the Godless. A psalm of Asaph, one of the choirmasters of David, 1 Chron...
For I was envious at the foolish, filled with anger at the proud boasting of the ungodly, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked, when he noted th...
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.